McDevitt Research Labs

In 1996 Professor John T. McDevitt developed the concept for and launched a research program directed towards a microchip-based technology suitable for the rapid analysis of complex fluids. This work was selected as part of Science Coalition's Best Scientific Advances for the Year. To date, these microchip sensors have been shown to be suitable for detection / quantification of acids, bases, salts, sugars, proteins, viruses, and DNA oligomers. Likewise, the chemical and biochemical content of complex fluids such as blood and urine can be digitized in near-real-time.

Work is now in progress to correlate these "digital fingerprints" with important global health care, environmental, biomedical, homeland security and food safety/quality application areas. Recently, Dr. McDevitt has helped to launch a new company called LabNow based on this same microchip sensor technology for HIV monitoring applications for use in resource poor settings.